Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to